Trashy Tuesday Free Stuff Welcome to Trashy Tuesday, where it is usually Wednesday by the time I get this post up! Who doesn't LOVE free stuff? I do, as long as it is good Free Stuff. The last week was filled with Free Stuff coming my way. Most of it pretty darn good. Suffering Husband's Partner was going to give these solid Oak chairs away, but donated them to my cause instead. (The cause of filling up my garage with other people's old things and Dumpster Diving Finds, feel free to donate). Not only did we receive 2 of these lovely Solid Oak Chairs..... (and by the way, that chair is sitting next to my Bench Made Entirely of Junk!) We also got a Free Swiveling Bar ...
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My Dumpster Runneth Over – Trashy Tuesday
My Dumpster Runneth over - Trashy Tuesday Feeling trashed from election results? Jumping for joy but have a media hangover? Regardless of how you feel from election results, I've got all the junk and a fabulous round up of junky news and trashy finds. If you are a regular here, you might be wondering if I fell in a Dumpster and couldn't get up. I have been BUSY! I had a fun Sister's getaway weekend in Cayucos, California. A beautiful little beach town in Central Coastal California. The next weekend I jetted to Utah with Suffering Husband to visit College Aged Daughter. Even though I only had a carry on little suit case, it didn't stop me from checking out the local ...
Trashy Tuesday What You Can Find in a Dumpster
Trashy Tuesday What You Can Find in a Dumpster Happy Trashy Tuesday, even though it is actually Wednesday. I am returning to the land of the living (I guess if you can call rummaging around in Dumpsters "living" then this is it). Thank you from the deepest parts of my heart and soul to the many, many sweet words and comments, and donations! From last week's post regarding the tragic death of our friend's son. In honor of Ben, and last weeks Dumpster connection I shared that Ben and I had, I am doing a SUPER DUMPSTER TOUR today. I have a whole Dumpster full of treasures to share with you. Ready for the guided tour of my Dumpster Diving Finds? Read on because you won't be ...
Trashy Tuesday Broken Chairs and Chairs
Trashy Tuesday Broken Chairs Welcome to Trashy Tuesday and Broken Chairs and Chairs! More broken chairs and chairs you ask? Why yes! The more broken and the more chairs the better. Actually, not better. But when it comes to chairs, I just can't stop myself. Imagine the possibilities that are out there for broken chair parts and just more chairs! I could keep myself blissfully happy making things from broken chairs and repurposing chairs for the next 5 years with all the chair parts and chairs I currently have in my stash. This was a great link and round up I found at Country Living of what other creative Bloggers have done with Broken Chair Parts. You might recall the ...
Trashy Tuesday Free Upcycles
Trashy Tuesday Free Upcycles Welcome to Trashy Tuesday. Today's post is HOT. And not just because it is hot where I live and probably hot where you live too. But HOT as in I got some HOT stuff this week and if I bring anything else home before upcycling it into something useful, I will be in HOT water with Suffering Husband. I found this broken record player stand some weeks ago. It has been nicely holding up all the other junk I seem to drag home periodically. Last week I posted the Free Dresser Makeover and it looks SO lovely in our Master Bedroom that I thought I should keep going and finish what I started. This has been Suffering Husband's Dresser for many years now. It ...
How to Use Stain over Paint Trashy Tuesday
How to Use Stain over Paint Trashy Tuesday It's Trashy Tuesday! And it's a two-for. Not only do you get to see what I found for free, but you see the makeover! Oops, I did it again....I went Dumpster Diving and curbside shopping. I have a FIRM belief that if you need something, a piece of furniture, etc.....think about it every time you go out "hunting". It won't be long before it will show up. Like this Dresser did! We were in need of a nightstand upgrade for Suffering Husband. Me, not wanting to buy a NEWISH piece of furniture knew I would find something suitable for free. Sure enough, this broken chest of drawers materialized one morning. It had some rough ...
Trashy Tuesday The Dumpster Chairs
Trashy Tuesday The Dumpster Chairs Welcome to Trashy Tuesday The Dumpster Chairs. Full disclosure, I did not pull a single chair out of an actual dumpster. We are using the term "Dumpster" loosely here today. I pulled this chair into my car from the side of the road. A VERY BUSY road. I might add. The kind where you pull over, use the automatic trunk open button on your mini van. Check your rear view mirror several times before daring to open the driver side door. Jump out, close the door fast, run around the car, snap a picture with your smart phone (best if the camera is ready to do its thing before you get out of car). You don't have time to assess the situation of why ...
Trashy Tuesday Dumpster Diving Delights
Trashy Tuesday Dumpster Diving Delights Welcome to Trashy Tuesday! There are lots of Dumpster Diving delights to be found here. I have so much good trash to share with you. Where to begin? I am a trash magnet. Can I help it if I drive down the street and my eyes immediately zero in on anything Free left by someone who moved, had a garage sale, or just did a deep clean? Sometimes I think people things put FREE stuff out, just for me. These past few weeks I have been amassing frames. Frames! Large and Small. On a recent shopping expedition in a Dumpster behind a large home decor store that shall remain anonymous, I found all kinds of frames, a candle holder and some misc ...
Trashy Tuesday How to Stencil on Old Wood With Stain
Trashy Tuesday How to Stencil on Old Wood With Stain Update! I only use Debi’s Design Diary DIY Paint since publishing this post. DIY Paint is 100% Natural, Clay Based, which makes it different from every other chalk paint product. It is perfectly smooth, the colors are beautiful and cover well, even their whites. It paints like liquid Velvet. You won’t believe how good a paint brush and a can of paint can feel. It is ahmazing stuff. Check my side bar if you want to know more. It's a 2 For Trashy Tuesday! I made this box from old fence boards (you can read how to build stuff like that here), painted it with CeCe Caldwell's 100% Natural Chalk + Clay Based Paints , then ...
Dumpster Makeover Ficus Tree Trashy Tuesday
Dumpster Makeover Ficus Tree Trashy Tuesday You might be asking yourself right now. Ficus Tree? Really? Like those big fake things in a basket that every model home and new apartment, and maybe even (you) had in a corner of your front room? Yep, that very same Faux Ficus Tree that probably still graces the floors in 10 out of 12 Doctor's waiting rooms. The Dumpster's are hot with them right now. This Ficus Tree in particular was in good shape, but the basket (bottom part) was falling apart. I am sure the owner could just not see the Future that the Faux Ficus was fixated on. Lucky for me, I saw a mystical, etherial, metallic and gorgeous vision. To make over this Faux ...
Trashy Tuesday New Idea for that Metal Bucket
Trashy Tuesday New Idea for that Metal Bucket You know, the one you threw in your garbage last week? The one I pulled out of your garbage when I was out walking my dog.... I realize you threw it away because you thought you had no use for it. And, it was a little wonky on the bottom. You didn't realize you could PAINT IT and fill it with flowers! Lucky me, I did see its potential. The first thing I did was try to undo the wonkiness by pounding on it from all sides with a hammer. Pounding on it from all sides actually made it worse. I then tried pounding it from each side to make it "even". This did not quite work out either. I realized I had spent 5 minutes pounding ...